A consumer watchdog unveiled a new campaign Thursday to highlight one of the nation’s largest energy provider’s loyalties to Wall Street social, environmental and governance standards (ESG) over a safe and reliable power grid.
The new campaign from Consumers’ Research, an educational non-profit, is exposing the corporate activism through a series of digital and billboard ads complete with a new website, RebukeDuke.com, modeled after Duke Energy’s own webpage. The group also opened the initiative with a letter calling on the North Carolina Utilities Commission to reject corporate rate increases to pay for far-left activism. The company has pledged $145 billion over the next decade to achieve “net-zero” emissions power generation.
“As the nation’s oldest consumer protection organization, Consumers’ Research’s purpose is to educate consumers on issues that impact them and amplify their voice in the marketplace. It is for this reason that we implore the commission to put an end to the abuse of North Carolina consumers by Duke Energy,” wrote the watchdog Executive Director Will Hild. “Duke’s operations have become a laundry list of expensive boondoggles and distractions.”
Hild’s laundry list of boondoggles outlined in the letter range from “racist trainings and racial quotas” to “targeting children with transgender propaganda,” all paid for by “never-ending rate increases.”
“When they aren’t pushing double-digit rate increases onto customers, they are busy wasting their time and customers’ money pushing political initiatives (some targeting children) and massive pay increases for their executive suite,” Hild wrote.
On Wednesday, the company struck an agreement with
